Wire-bending tool



(No Model.)

F. BRUNE.

WIRE BENDINGTOOL;

No. 394,331. Patented B29 11, 1888.

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N. PETERS. Phowlkhvgrapher. Washingkm, DJ;

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRIEDRICH BRENE, ()F ELIZABETH, NElV JERSEY.

WlRE-BENDING TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 394,331, dated. December 11, 1888.

Application filed October 18, 1888. Serial No. 288,513. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRIEDRICH .BRUNE, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, and at. present resiiling in Elizabeth, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved \Vire-lvemling Tool, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to a tool specially adapted for bending the wire on bottle-stoppers, such as shown and deseribeifl in the Patent No. 158,406, dated January 5, 1375, and granted to Charles d e Quilli'eldt, of New York city.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved toolv which is very simple and durable in construction, 'ettective in operation, and serving to quickly and accurately bend the supporting wire or yoke of the stopper, so as to refit the latter onto the mouth of the bottle.

The invention consists of various parts and details and combinations of the same,ashereinatter more fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to he had to the accom 'ianying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the tool as applied to a lmttle-yoke. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. is a transverse sectional elevation of the same on the lines of Fig. 1, and Fig. at is a like view of part of the same in a different position.

The improved wire-bending tool A is provided with the two members I and C, hinged together at one end at I), and having their other ends formed into the handles E and F, respectively.

The member B is provided between the pivot D and the handle E with the straight flat part G, having on its under side the downwardlyextending lug H. The said flat part G and its lug H are adapted to pass between the forked part I of the member 0, which latter thus forms a guide for the member B.

The forked part I is straight and continuous with the downwardly-extendin short arm J, on which the rearwardly-proj ecting handle F is formed. From the lower end of the arm J projects forward and parallel with the forked part I the arm K, having in its top a recess, L, into the middle of which is adapted to pass the lug II when the handles E and F are pressed together. From each side of the arm J extends a downwardly and forwardly inclined L-shaped finger or prong, N.

\Vhen bottle-stoppers such as described in the patent above mentioned are used for some time, the stopper does not lit snugly on its seat 011 the bottle on account of wear or other causes, thereby permitting leakage of the bot tle when the stopper is seated. Now in order to again fit the stopper snugly on the bottle I employ the tool above described and proceed as follows: \Vhen the bottle is open, the stopper 0 is moved to one side of the supporti ng wire or yoke l as is plainly shown in Figs. and 2, and the wire I is preferably placed in a vertical position. The operator now takes hold with one hand of the handles E and F and opens the members 1; and C, so that the bottom of the lug ll is above the top of the arm K. The latter is now pushed under the middle part of the wire P, so that the said middle part rests across the top of the arm K. The prongs I by this movement pass over the sides of the wire P, thereby holding the latter firmly in place. The operator presses the handles E and F toward each other, so that the lug ll moves downward onto the top of the middle part of the wire P, which part rests over the recess L on the arm K. A further pressing of the hamlles E and F causes the lug H to bend the middle part of the wire I downward into the recess L of the arm K, as plainly illustrated in Fig. l. The tool A is then removed from the bottlestopper and the stopper 0 is hung into the bend on the middle part of the wire I. The stopper 0 now hangs considerably lower, as before, on the wire P, and when the stopper is moved above the mouth of the bottle and then pressed downward in the usual manher it fits snugly onto its seat on the bottle.

It will thus be seen that by this simple tool I am enabled to refit the stopper very quickly and accurately on the bottle.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A wire-bemling tool comprisingtwo members hinged together at one end and of which one member is forked, an arm having in its member and having a curved recess in its top Io top a recess and formed on the said forked directly below the said lug, and prongs promember, and a lug formed on the other memjecting from the sides of one of the members ber directly above the said recessed arm and and extending downwardly and forwardly,

5 passing through the said forked member, subsubstantially as described.

2. A Wire-bell ding tool comprising two members hinged together, a lug formed on one of the said members, an arm formed on the other \Vitnesses:

K. SCHMIDT, R. HOEHLER.

stantially as herein shown and. described. I FRIEDRICH BRUNE. 

